Barcelona vs Benfica

Barcelona have become the third team in UEFA Champions League history to reach 20+ quarter-finals, along with Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.

At the age of 17 years and 241 days, Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal tonight was the youngest player in UEFA Champions League history to score and assist in a match.

Barcelona have scored 32 UEFA Champions League goals this season, their most in a season since 2011-12 (35). The only other season they’ve netted more than their 32 this season was 1999-00 (45, a competition record).

Barcelona have only lost one of their last 10 games against Benfica in European competition (W5 D4), while they are unbeaten in the four occasions when they’ve hosted the Portuguese side (W2 D2).

Barcelona have already beaten Benfica twice in the UEFA Champions League this season, with both victories coming away from home (5-4 in January and 1-0 last week). Benfica have never previously been beaten three times by the same opponent in the same European campaign.

Benfica haven’t won any of their four away games against Barcelona in European competition (D2 L2), while they’ve failed to score a goal in each of the last three. The only opponents they’ve faced more often away from home in Europe without ever winning are Bayern Munich (7) and Manchester United (5).

The last Portuguese side to win away to Barcelona in European competition was FC Porto in September 1972 (1-0 in the UEFA Cup). Since then, Portuguese teams haven’t won any of their 14 away games there, with 12 of those ending in defeats (D2).

Benfica have been eliminated on five of the previous six occasions when losing the first leg of a UEFA Champions League knockout stage tie, only once managing to come back to progress – versus Zenit St Petersburg in the last 16 in 2011-12 (lost 2-3 in first leg, won 2-0 in the second).